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What is your word or thought picture of Jesus? Is it him suffering and dying on the cross? Is it the large stone rolled away and the empty tomb? Is it him ascending into heaven and the two men in white reassuring those present and us that he WILL come again? Is it him sitting at the right hand of God the Father Almighty?

If those are typical of your images then you have an incomplete picture of Jesus and how well he really knows what you are going through every day.

He doesn’t just KNOW it intellectually as the son of God but he has experienced it, too.


Luke 3: 21-23 Now when all the people were baptized, Jesus was also baptized, and while He was praying, heaven was opened, 22and the Holy Spirit descended upon Him in bodily form like a dove, and a voice came out of heaven, “You are My beloved Son, in You I am well-pleased.”

23When He began His ministry, Jesus Himself was about thirty years of age…

What was he doing for the first 30 years?
Dealing with imperfect mother and father, imperfect family.
Living a mostly normal life as a child, teen ager, a young businessman carpenter.
Carpenter customers some of which praised his work, others criticized and tried to cheat him.

Living life as a typical blue collar worker. He understands you very well.

Before Jesus could embark on his estimated 3 ½ year ministry among us he had to actually live out successfully the life that he was to teach us.

Not guilty of DO AS I SAY AND NOT AS I DO Jesus did it.

Leo Tolstoy, Russian novelist, talked a lot about practical love. Show love to everyone.

Wife wrote: There is so little genuine warmth about him; his kindness does not come from the heart, but merely from his principles. His biographies will tell of how he helped the laborers to carry buckets of water, but no one will ever know that he never gave his wife a rest and never, in all these thirty two years, gave his child a drink of water of spent five minutes by his bedside.

Jesus lived the life from his heart. He really does UNDERSTAND you and love you. When you hurt he hurts, we would say.

Expects the same standards from you. don’t just go through the motions but love people from your heart.